The Robotics team held their first bottle drive
of the season last Saturday. It was a
beautiful day for such adventure. With 14 vehicles and 28 students canvassing the
city the pile of bottles quickly grew to immense proportions! The students and parents
left behind to sort tried to keep up with the steadily increasing flow bottles.
With Jane and Steve Martin in charge, the sorting went smoothly from the pile to
the truck.

The canvassers returned to the Robotics room at 1:00 and
quickly jumped in to help with the sorting. According to Alex, the pile was the
height of a 10 foot spruce tree and the width of a 20 foot long monkey wrench. Slowly
over the next 5 hours the pile diminished in size until we were left with flavors
nobody had ever heard of. These were set aside for sorting later and the rest loaded
on the truck. After a long days hard work, we had sent 3 huge truck loads to the
redemption center!! This bottle drive was a tremendous success. We raised the bar
for future bottle drives. The record was $2100 but we blew that away, making over
$2550!!! With another bottle drive scheduled in December, we're already looking
to raise the bar even higher.

This just in..... The final total for the bottle drive is $3014.00. Way to go Riotcrew!!!
Many thanks to all the parents, teachers and alumni that helped.